The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-10-13
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items of Interest From Both Sides
of the Divide.

Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
John II. Kuhn was hurt in Butte Tues
day morning while boarding a train for
Anaconda.
Chas Smith, an old-time resident of
Helena, attempted suicide in that place
last Monday.
John Manning, variety actor, died
from an overdose of morphine, in Helena,
last Saturday.
The two water companies of Helena are
very busy at present in laying new mains
in several parts of that city.
The trip of the Helena Maroons to the
coast has been abandoned, Seattle being
the only club that "talked" straight.
jeremiah Sullivan, brother of Eugene
Sullivan, ex-sheriff of Silver Bow county,
died of mountain fever, in Butte, last
Monday.
Two men passed forged check of
the Parrot mining company for $112.5O
at Shilling Il Shea's saloon, in Butte,
last Sunday.
A strong effort will be made by Butte
to secure the appointment of Colonel
DeWolfe to succeed Galbralth as judge
of the district.
Mrs. Annie Huffman, of Butte, was ex-
amined, Monday, by jury before the
probate court, adjudged insane, and sent
to Warm Springs.
The city council of Butte has given the
street car company thirty days more
time and appointed a committee to s'1-
pervise construction.
Independent: A man applied to Pro-
bate Judge Clements, recently, for a
license to marry a fourteen-year-old girl.
OF course it was refused.
Miner, 18th: On next Friday after
noon, the big Knowles pump at the new
Butte water works, will commence fore
ing water into the city reservoir.
The Townsends and Independents will
probably meet at Helena park next Sun
day, Marysville having failed to cover the
Independents forfeit for game.
A conshict of opinion exists between
the police judge and city attorney as tC
the legality of the quarterly assessment
of the prostitutes recently inaugurated
in Helena.
Thos. Heating, a prominent citizen OF
Thompson Falls, died at the Rodgers
House in Missoula at an early hour last
Monday morning. He is supposed te
havedi ed from heart disease.
independent: J. G. Cramer aud com
panions were on trial before Judge Eng.
lish the other day, charged with intimi
dating and preventing from work the n.er
employed in building the Jay Gould saw
mill.
On Thursday, at Butte, the grand jur!
found an Indictment of murder in tn;
first degree against Charles A. Clayton
for shooting and killing 2. G. Maddux
near Melrose, about the middle of las
August.
A meeting of the stockholders of tn,
Pollock mining and milling company, o
Butte, will be held at the office of II. G
Carney, secretary, at Butte, on Saturday
October %, for the purpose of electins
trustees and transacting other business.
Inter Mountain, 18th: John A. Leggat
whose house was burglarized last week
recovered part of the stolen property
this morning-the trunk-and it contain
ed one collar and a night shirt. It wa
found near Leggatt's old planning mill
in the southeast corner of the city limits
broken open.
It is learned that the Smokehouse cases
which were appealed to the United
States supreme court, will hang in thu
balance two or three years before the!
will be touched. All cases relative to tn,
, SmOkehOuse nrOnertv have So far in tn,
Montana courts, been decided in favor O
( J. A. Murray; hence their appeal to tn
: United States supreme court.
The will of the late John Kinna ha
, been fled for probate with Judge Gle
: ments in Helena. Mrs. Kinna is mad
l executrix without bonds. It bequeath
: the entire estate, after the payment o
just debts, to Mrs. Kinna, in trust, t.